Hanger for window screens and storm windows



Dec. 16, 1952 J. H. SCHMITT HANGER FOR WINDOW SCREENS AND STORM WINDOWS Filed July 12, 1950 FIG. 2

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Patented Dec. 16, 1952 HANGER- FOR WINDOW SCREENS AND STORM WINDOWS John H. Schmjtt, Verona, N. J.

Application July 12, 1950, Serial No. 173,300

3 Claims.

This invention relates to a type of hanger which is especially adapted for use in hanging window screens and closures. The present and usual type of hanger comprises a hook member permanently fastened to the outside and at the top of the window frame, while the screen or closure has a member fastened thereto with an opening or eye therein to engage the said hook member. It is to be understood that each screen or closure has a pair of these hangers. In hanging the screen or storm window from the inside of the house, which is the usual practice, after the screen or closure is inserted through the opening produced by raising the lower sash one has to reach out a considerable distance in order to engage the two hanger parts; one pair of members of a hanger being first engaged and then the other as it is extremely hard to make both engage at the same time. While it is not quite so difiicult to remove the screen or closures it nevertheless requires some straining of ones arms and back to do it.

It is therefore the principal object of my invention to provide a hanger or fastening means for screens and closures which eliminates the difficulties heretofore mentioned with respect to the usual type of hangers. In my present invention the main object is to be obtained by a construction whereby a screen or closure may be easily installed by merely pushing upwardly on the screen or closure to make the members attached to the screen or closure come into engagement with the fixed members on the outside and at the top of the window frame. To take down the screens or closures no lifting strain is required but merely an outward push on the frame of the screen or closure causes it to disengage from the hanger members on the window frame. The cooperating parts are so made that a screen or closure may be opened a certain amount for shaking dust cloths, as it is the usual practice of the housewives without dismounting them.

The present invention is a simplified form of the invention shown in my Patent 2,480,051 issued August 23, 1949 which will be readily understood from the present specification and drawing wherein:

Figure l is a plan view approximately full size showing one of the hangers attached to the upper portion of the screen fastened to a window frame.

Figure 2 is a side view of Figure 1 looking from right to left.

Figure 3 is a view similar to Figure 2 but with the screen pushed'outwardly to the disassembly position.

In the drawing wherein like numbers refer to corresponding parts in the views, I is the upper part of a window frame to which a screen as illustrated or closure 2 is attached by a pair of hangers.

Each of the hangers is made up of two members A and B, the member A being fastened to the window frame while the member B is fastened to the window screen, or they may be reversed in location. T

The member A is a relatively wide fiatmember having a finger 3 projecting outwardly and then downwardly from a base portion 4 that starts adjacent the screw 5 that is one of the means used for holding the member A in position. Where the finger 3 is formed from the member A, a pair of spaced lugs 6 is provided which are bent inwardly, one of which is shown in Figures 2 and 3. These lugs are fastened to the ledge I of the. window frame as by suitable nails 8 when the member A is located as shown, or said lugs are fastened to the top of the screen frame when the members A and B are reversed from the position shown in the drawing.

The finger 3 after leaving its base 4 extends downwardly onto a curvilinearly formation forming a pocket I0, the curved portion II extends downwardly to form a lip I2 having its end I3 preferably turned outwardly.

The member B has a fiat portion I4 adapted to be fastened to the screen 2 or the window frame I as by screws I5. The free end of B preferably has a lug I6 punched inwardly to engage the top of the screen or window ledge I to locate the member B thereon. In punching the lip I6, arms I1 and I8 are left to carry a rolled up portion I9 that is adapted to find a seat in the pocket Ill when the screen is assembled to the window as shown in Figures 1 and 2. If desired a recess in the top of the screen frame may be made to receive the lug I6.

The operation of this construction is the same as in my patent to which reference has been made but briefly when a screen or closure equipped with the hanger heretofore described, the same is set with its upper part in the window frame provided to receive a screen or closure and just pushed upwardly and the rolled up portion I9 will pass under the lips I2 and over the curved portion II into the pocket I0 where it is securely held after being hooked at the bottom.

When the screen or closure is to be removed all that is necessary is to unhook the structure and push outwardly on it as shown in Figure 3. This causes the lips I2 to move the finger 3 outwardly so the rolled up portion 19 will move out of the pocket [0.

With this construction, the action is the same as in my patent referred to, that is to say there is no stretching and straining, especially in putting up a screen or closure which is necessary to install these structures where hangers are used that require hooking them into position.

It should be mentioned that the members A and B are so proportioned that screen or closures can be pushed out at the bottom so that a housewife can shake dust cloths out the window without danger of unlocking the structure.

While certain of the details may be varied, those that are obvious are believed to come within the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is:

1. Hanger means for the purpose described including a pair of members either one of which is adapted to be fastened to a closure or screen or window frame; one member being elongated and having fastening means at the ends thereof, said member having a flat portion with a resilient finger integrally formed from and extending along and in spaced relation to said flat portion, the base of said finger at the point of its connection to the flat portion being adjacent one end of the flat portion and inwardly of the fastening means at that end, the finger extending toward the opposite end of the member and having a curvilinearly shaped pocket formed therein and a lip extending away from and outwardly from th pocket, the other member also having a flat surface with means therein for fastening it to a screen or closure or window frame for co-operation with the foregoing stated one member depending on where said one member is mounted, the fiat surface of this last mentioned member terminating at its end away from said fastening means, in a cylindrically shaped portion adapted to be pushed under the said lip into said pocket on the first mentioned member.

2. Hanger means a set forth in claim 1 further defined in that the member having the cylindrically shaped portion has a lug centrally located with respect to said portion, the lug being punched inwardly to assist in fitting it in operative position, a pair of spaced arms formed by the space left by the punched lug, said cylindrically shaped portion being carried by said arms.

3. Hanger means as set forth in claim 1 further defined in that the member having the finger pocket has the base of the finger formed outwardly from the fiat surface and then forwardly into said curved pocket so as to give the finger considerable resilience whereby the assembly and disassembly of the screen or storm window is greatly enhanced as the circular portion is caused to engage and disengage said lip and pocket.

JOHN H. SCHMITT.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,001,141 Grosskopf Aug. 22, 1911 1,055,431 Watrous Mar. 11, 1913 1,412,460 Dickinson Apr. 11, 1922 1,825,595 Kohl Sept. 29, 1931 2,475,887 Gould July 12, 1949 2,480,051 Schmitt Aug. 23, 1949 

